The Undead
Summary: Beck and Jade are actually from the 1800's. There's also the fact that they're supposed to be dead.
Chapter One:
He wasn't always like this. No, he used to have a healthy, beating heart in his chest. His skin wasn't always as cold as ice- he used to be quite warm, actually, as far as he can remember.
But one day, a long time ago, he and his fiancé got into an accident. He still had a large scar running down his back from some metal slashing it when his carriage skidded on ice and went rolling down a bank into a lake.
He and his fiancé, unfortunately, died in that freezing lake. He wasn't sure whether he had drowned or bled out. It was more likely that he had drowned, but the scar on his back said that maybe it was a mixture of both.
He was unsure what had killed his fiancé, she always refused to say, but nearly one hundred years later, they had walked out of that lake with only a few scars as proof of their death.
Somehow, they had been revived and dragged back from the dark, dark afterlife to once again live on. Well, one can hardly live when they're dead. Yes, he and his beautiful wife Jadelyn (or Jade as she now prefers), no longer had beating hearts in their chest, they were as cold as the lake they had died in.
They hadn't aged in over a century. They still had the appearance of eighteen-year-olds. It was getting more and more complicated. They had to make sudden disappearances every decade or so when their lack of ageing started to become more obvious.
They would just turn up in places (mainly high schools nowadays), live through the torturous years as they tried to find out why they had been brought back to life, then disappear again to find somewhere else to do their research.
A few times, the people they would get close to in their new location would notice their lack of beating heart or their ice-cold skin and would confront them about it. Or they would recognise them from the many articles online where people would compare images of them from the newspaper announcing their death in the eighteenth century to the images they'd taken whilst living as teenagers in the twenty-first century.
If there was one thing he and Jadelyn were sure of in their new life, it was that they had to figure out why they had been brought back to life- no matter how long it took. They had all the time in the world after all.
oOoOoOo
Beck walked through the Asphalt Café with a Jewbrew coffee in his hand and his bag slung over his shoulder as usual. Girls stared at him as he passed by, a look of longing in their eyes. The few guys that stared had only jealousy in theirs. He only had eyes for one person, though.
Beck sat down at the usual table, joining his girlfriend (fiancé). He passed the coffee to her, smiling when she wrapped her hands around it, enjoying its warmth.
"Two sugars?" She asked, though she already knew the answer.
"I know what to do," he answered with a chuckle. She looked away as a grateful smile spread across her face.
As his girlfriend sipped the hot coffee, he watched with curiosity and fascination on his face. She didn't notice at first, so absorbed was she in her coffee, but when she did, she finally snapped, "what?!"
He flinched when he was broken from his thoughts like he'd been struck, but recovered quickly, "I was just wondering how you can still drink coffee. I mean, we only eat or drink when we're around people because.. you know, but you still drink coffee when we're not even with anyone," he explained.
"I like coffee. I'll take the consequences," she told him as she took another sip of the hot drink.
Both Beck and Jade were distracted from their comfortable silence when the warning bell for first period rang.
They got up from the table and grabbed their bags, heading into the school together with Jade under Beck's arm.
oOoOoOo
When the couple walked into their favourite teacher Sikowitz's classroom, they were both hit in the face by two dodgeball balls. Jade exclaimed in shock whilst Beck just stood there as if he had already expected something.
"You're late!" Sikowitz shouted as other students piled into the classroom.
Jade and Beck carefully took their seats with confusion.
"The bell just rang," Beck pointed out as he placed his bag under his chair.
"Did it?" Sikowitz asked, looking at his watch. "Indeed it did!" He then yelled when he realised Beck was right.
Beck and Jade shook their heads with a sigh as their friends took their seats next to them.
Sikowitz walked up on stage and clapped his hands loudly, making Cat squeal a little. Sikowitz then paced back and forth on the stage before he came to a stop right in the middle and clapped his hands again.
"Today we will be talking about death!" He told his students.
Beck and Jade slowly looked at each other then returned them to their teacher without saying a word. Their eyes communicated more than they could say.
They both sat silently as Sikowitz talked briefly about what it was like to play a character that had died, and the emotions that came along with it, and how to portray those emotions.
Almost everyone had asked a question or told their opinion on something, but Beck and Jade decided to stay quiet because they knew what it was like to actually die and how it had felt knowing that they were at their end, that they might not see each other again.
Sikowitz walked off the stage and stood to the side, eyeing his students as he decided which pair to choose for a scene.
"Beck, Jade, come on stage, please," he requested as he pointed to the oddly silent couple.
Each taking deep breaths into their barely functioning lungs, they got up from their chairs and walked onto the familiar stage. They stood for a few seconds as they waited for their teacher to give them a task. He stayed silent, however, as he looked at the pair on stage.
Finally, their barefoot teacher walked on stage to join them.
"You two have been quiet today. And you look nervous, or maybe sad? What's wrong?" He asked in a serious tone as he held his hands behind his back.
Beck and Jade avoided looking at each other as they tried to seem as normal as possible.
"Nothing's wrong," Jade said with a fake laugh. Beck nodded briefly in agreement.
"Are you sure?" Sikowitz asked.
Jade nodded fast when he got in her face, just staring into her eyes intently. The more he stared, the more it looked like he knew something so Jade tried to calm down and steady her ragged breathing.
Sikowitz jumped off stage with a clap, startling everyone in the room after the tense silence, and turned back to the two on stage, "alright, you two are going to play an engaged couple. Beck, you're dead, and Jade, you've just found his body. Action!"
With a shaky breath, Beck lay down on the stage in a position that looked like he had just collapsed to the floor or been shot.
Jade, who had moved back to the edge of the stage, got into character and walked towards him with tears already running down her face.
With a sob, she threw herself to her knees next to Beck and let out a heartwrenching cry as she grabbed his body and begged him to come back.
This continued for nearly a minute before Sikowitz ended the scene. Jade wiped the tears from her face and stood up, along with Beck. As they both walked back to their seats, Jade was watched by her peers, too stunned to think about clapping.
"Jade, that was... something. Wow..." Sikowitz told her. He just couldn't find the words, her acting was so good, so realistic. In all his years of teaching, he'd never seen any of his students act as well as she had.
Before anyone could compliment her 'acting', the bell rang, signalling the end of the first period.
Everyone grabbed their stuff and began to leave the room, but Sikowitz halted them before they could and hurriedly told them about an acting assignment due for three week's time.
After that, and as the gang left the room, Beck and Jade were being watched by a suspicious-looking Sikowitz.
oOoOoOo
An hour later, Beck and Jade met up in the Asphalt after their previous lesson. Jade was mulling over the way Sikowitz had looked at her, whilst Beck was doing some revision beside her.
The rest of the gang hadn't arrived yet, so the pair were left to themselves. Jade took this as her opportunity, putting her coffee down and turning to Beck.
"Do you think Sikowitz was acting weird today?" She began.
Beck looked up from his work and shrugged at her.
"He's always acting weird," he said.
"Yeah, but more weird than usual," Jade replied.
"I don't think so."
Sighing and trying to clear her thoughts of their oddball acting teacher, Jade grabbed her coffee again and sipped it occassionally.
"Hey, you two," the annoyingly chipper voice of Tori Vega greeted Jade's ears.
She didn't hide the eyeroll aimed at Tori, but the latter seemed to ignore it as it was a usual response from Jade.
Along with Tori was Andre, Cat, and Robbie. They all took a seat at the table, setting their lunches down in front of them. Andre chose to also bring his keyboard and he rested it on his lap to play while he ate, which was par for the course with the musician.
"So, what does everyone think about the assignment Sikowitz gave us?" Tori asked everyone.
"I don't know, it's a little vague," Robbie said.
"Ha, your relationships are a little vague," Rex laughed.
"Rex!" Robbie exclaimed while Jade smirked in amusement.
"Anyway," Tori interrupted the pair before they could get into another one of their famous arguments, "vague or not, do you guys want to come 'round mine to think of some ideas?"
"Kay Kay," Cat smiled then bit into a french fry.
"Sounds good," Andre nodded.
"Whatever," Jade reluctantly agreed with a second eyeroll.
"Yes, I do!" Robbie told Tori along with some form of fist pump.
The gang looked at him weirdly for a short moment, then went back to talking. Meanwhile, Jade looked around the asphalt cafe, feeling a strange suspicion that someone or something was watching her.
A/N: Wow, I've had this chapter in my documents for at least a year and have been occasionally adding to it. I've finally finished the chapter though and I'm posting it.Feel free to leave me a review and let me know what you think? I would greatly appreciate it, and it lets me know that y'all want me to continue writing it :DAnyway, I hope you're all doing okay during these trying times. Stay safe 3